When visiting a place that has a reportedly good aquarium, I can’t not go and check it out for myself. For someone born and raised in Kansas, I have a strange thing for deep water and its inhabitants. Going to visit the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta on a Sunday which […]
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Here’s an excerpt from the list of very detailed instructions about what to do in every kind of emergency posted on my door: Attention-drawing red ellipse added by me Most of these instructions make pretty good sense, but the “DO NOT JUMP!” in all-caps is a little boggling. As mentioned […]
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Thousands of smiling, mild-mannered people with blue tote bags have descended on the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. This is the 2010 American Academy of Religion conference. I’m posting from my room in that hotel, using the wireless internet that they made me pay for on top of the room […]
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